1. Berthollet , Claude Louis . 1803. Essai de statique chimique 151153Paris Berthollet was undoubtedly the chemist who most benefited from reading the Mémoires, as he adopted many theoretical ideas contained in the first volume. See, u 25, 37. Significantly, Berthollet referred to the work as 'Recuefl des Mem, par Seguin, torn. l', or 'Mém. Recueillis par Séguin, torn. II ', giving the impression that he had obtained Séguin's permission to consult the proofs two years before Madame Lavoisier circulated the work
2. 1994. Lavoisier 1743-1794 21Paris A copy annotated by Adanson was recently offered for sale by the Parisian dealer Thomas Scheler in his catalogue
3. French , Sidney J. 1941. Torch and Crucible. The Life and Death of Antoine Lavoisier, 264Princeton: Princeton University Press. The copy for Cuvier was actually sent by Madame Lavoisier to the Institut. Cuvier replied with a letter of thanks dated 9 August 1805 (see Grimaux (note 3), 334). Cuvier's copy is now in the library of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Shelfmark 11478, and bears the following note written in Cuvier's hand on the frontispiece: 'Ce livre m'a été donné par Madame Lavoisier. G.C.' On receiving his copy from Madame Lavoisier, Cuvier declared: 'All friends of science owe you a debt of gratitude for the sad task you had of publishing the collection in its fragmentary parts. It is a sad monument to your loss and ours […] How many truths were we still to learn in a work which began with new truths; and how we feel again in all its force the horror of the crime which has deprived humanity for centuries.' Quoted and translated by